The Committee

   

Ian Hayllor, Chair
Ian with wife Deb and their three sons are irrigated and rain grown grain and cotton farmers west of Dalby.  Ian has also been appointed to rge Surat Basin Engagement Group, is a committee member on the NFF CSG Task Force, a committee member for Arrow Surat Community Reference Group and Origin Technical Information Group, a stakeholder on Healthy Head Waters Programme and Chair of the Environmental and Property Protection Assoc Inc (EPPA).

 

Anne Bridle, Vice Chair
Anne, husband Robert, and family operate Talbingo Pastoral Company - a integrated agricultural operation involving a cattle stud, cattle breeding, backgroudning, fattening and feedlotting, grain growing and a commercial transport business - from properties near Dalby and Dirranbandi.  Anne is also a member of the Sustainable Resource Policy Local Leadership Leadership Group - Surat Basin; on the steering committee for the Surat Basin Future Directions Strategy as well as on the ALFA CSG sub-committee.  Anne also holds a Bachelor of Agricultural Economics.

 

Scott Seis, Treasurer
Scott and wife Jo and their family operate an irrigated and dryland cropping farm "Mungana" at Macalister.  They grow grains and cotton and operate a piggery and a farm contracting business "Seis Contracting".  They also operate Dalby Mower Supplies, a Dalby business specialising in mowers, pumps and farm supplies.  Scot represents the Jimbour Floodplains Group and has also been active in various leadership rles including past president of the Darling Downs Cotton Growers Association.

 

Katie Lloyd, Secretary
Katie is based near Chinchilla where she and her husband Scott own and operate a mixed farming operation comprising a 5,000 head feedlot.  The Lloyds have been dealing with CSG Companies for the past 10 years.  A former newspaper journalist, Katie is keen to highlight and address the issues surrounding the CSG/LNG industry.

 

Dave Armstrong
Dave and wife Ruth, operate an irrigated and rain grown cotton and grain farm "Yanco" near Cecil Plains and are partners in The Open Range, an outdoor sporting store in Toowoomba.  Dave is a former committee member of the Darling Downs Cotton Grower Association and Central Downs Irrigators Ltd.

 

Wayne Newton
Wayne Newton, along with his wife Bev and brother-in-law Glenn and his wife Ruth, operate irrigated and dryland grain and cotton operations on several properties near Dalby.  Bev and Wayne are also partners in a veterinary hospital and pet barn in Dalby.  Wayne is AgForce Grains Director and was previously Queensland Grains Growers' Association Director.  Wayne has held many other industry positions, including on the Grains Research Foundation, Darling Downs Research Advisory Committee, Conservation Farmers Inc and National Grains RD&E Strategy Committee.

 

David Hamilton
David is a farmer and consultant.  Together with his wife Jeanette he operates a farm at Macalister.  Previously David was General Manager, Plant Science with the Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries.  He holds a Bachelor of Agricultural Science and Masters in Agronomy.  He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Director of the Cotton Catchment Communities Cooperative Research Centre and the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology.

 

Jeff Bidstrup
Jeff and his family farm cotton and grain at Warra and Condamine and are involved in AgBiTech (a company focused on integrated pest management).  Jeff has been actively involved in Landcare and is currently Coal4breakfast Chair and committee man of FutureFood Qld. He has also won the Queensland Landcare Primary Producers Award in 1999.  He's a former Director of CRDC and CSD and winner of Australian Cottongrower of the Year.

 

Bernie Caffery
Bernie is a Director and Principal Agronomist of Crop Management Services with over 30 years of experience in agricultural consulting to irrigated and dryland crop farmers on the Darling Downs.  He holds a Bachelor of Applied Science (Rural Technology) and undertakes regular on farm crop monitoring and agronomic advice.  Prior to agronomic consulting, Bernie worked in vegetation management research in Western and Northern Queensland.

 

Veronica Laffy
Veronica and her husband Dan own and operate an organic beef farm west of Dalby  They are very interested in the development and promotion of sustainable agriculture that will not only feed communities by provide employment for future generations.  Dan and Veronica also run a fence contracting business "CSSS - Fencing" from their property.  In 2002 Veronica built and established Dalby first purpose built childcare centre, "A Country Garden - Early Childhood Centre" in partnership with her sister, and takes a keen interest in the development and implementation of child protection policy in relation to the CSG Industry.